Switzerland startup ecosystem
Switzerland offers startups access to world-leading research from ETH Zurich and EPFL, deep capital markets, and a stable regulatory environment. Zurich and the Lake Geneva region are strong in biotech, medtech, fintech, and deep tech. While the cost base is high, the quality of talent, IP protection, and proximity to global corporates compensate. The directory currently lists 117 organisations across 17 cities.
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Samuel Mueller
Co-founder and CEO of Scandit, the Zurich-based enterprise computer vision company he co-founded in 2009 as an ETH Zurich spin-out. Mueller led Scandit from a research project into a global B2B platform used by DHL, Sephora, and the NHS, raising over $150M from investors including Atomico, G2VP, and Swisscom Ventures. He holds a PhD in computer science from ETH Zurich, where he worked on mobile augmented reality before commercialising barcode-scanning technology for enterprise use.
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Scandit
Scandit is a Zurich-based enterprise software company founded in 2009 by Samuel Mueller and Christian Floerkemeier as an ETH Zurich spin-out. The company built a computer vision and AI data capture platform that enables enterprises to scan barcodes, QR codes, text, and ID documents using standard smartphone cameras, eliminating the need for dedicated hardware scanners. Scandit's SDK is embedded in apps used by logistics companies, retailers, healthcare providers, and manufacturers to power item scanning for picking, inventory management, and patient safety workflows. The company has raised over $150M from investors including Atomico, G2VP, and Swisscom Ventures, and its technology runs in production at DHL, Sephora, the NHS, and hundreds of other enterprise customers. Scandit operates globally from Zurich with offices in London, Boston, and Tokyo, and is one of Switzerland's most prominent B2B enterprise software scale-ups.
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Scott Tolinski
Software engineer at Sentry, co-host of the Syntax.fm web development podcast and founder of the Level Up Tutorials education platform for JavaScript and frontend developers. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Seedstars Summit 2026
Global emerging-market startup summit hosted in Lausanne, connecting founders from 80+ countries with investors, mentors, and corporate partners. Culminates in a pitch competition for the Seedstars Global Winner award.
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Sophia Genetics
SOPHiA GENETICS is a Lausanne-based health-tech company founded in 2011 by Jurgi Camblong and Pierre Hutter as an EPFL spin-out. The company built a clinical AI platform — SOPHiA DDM — that enables hospital and laboratory networks to decode genomic data for oncology, rare disease, and pharmacogenomics applications. Its platform standardises and accelerates genomic analysis across a federated network of more than 780 healthcare institutions in 70 countries, turning each new clinical dataset into a contribution to a collectively smarter system. SOPHiA GENETICS listed on Nasdaq in July 2021, raising $228M, and is backed by Salesforce Ventures and Generation Investment Management. The company represents the EPFL ecosystem's capacity to produce globally significant clinical technology at scale.
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START Summit 2026
Student-run summit at Olma Messen with 7,000+ attendees, 1,000+ investors, and 1,500+ startups. Highlights include the START Summiteer pitch competition and high-volume investor-founder matchmaking.
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START Summit 2027
START Summit returns to St. Gallen 18-19 March 2027, featuring 120+ speakers across five tracks including startup pitches, investor programming and a FoodFestival. The 2026 edition hosted speakers such as Vinted co-founder Milda Mitkute and Helsing CTO Robert Fink, alongside dozens of early-stage startup elevator pitches.
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Startup Nights 2026
The biggest startup event in Switzerland, returning to Eulachhallen Winterthur and joining the Swiss Startup Association umbrella in 2026. Targets ~9,500 changemakers across health tech, sustainability and deep tech with pitches, exhibitions and ecosystem networking.
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Swiss Cyber Security Days 2026
Switzerland's flagship cybersecurity conference in Zurich featuring CISO panels, live attack simulations, and a startup zone for security vendors. Attracts 2,000+ security professionals, government officials, and enterprise buyers. Tickets from CHF 150.
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Swiss Cyber Security Days 2027
Swiss Cyber Security Days 2027 takes place 23-24 February in Bern, organised by BERNEXPO AG. The event brings together cybersecurity practitioners, enterprises and government stakeholders for two days of conference sessions and exhibition. It is Switzerland's leading cybersecurity trade event.
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Swiss Cyber Storm 2026
Long-established Swiss IT security conference at Kursaal Bern bringing international speakers to a national audience of students, technical practitioners, security officers and CISOs. The 2026 theme is 'Shadow IT'.
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Swiss Economic Forum 2026
Switzerland's leading business conference, drawing top corporate leaders, decision-makers, and entrepreneurs to Interlaken, and host of the Swiss Economic Award for young companies. For a growth-stage founder it is the prime venue to reach Swiss corporate decision-makers and capital at the senior level.
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Swiss Innovation Forum 2026
Switzerland's national innovation conference in Basel, connecting Swiss corporates, ETH/EPFL spin-outs, deep-tech startups, and cantonal economic-development agencies. Content spans pharma innovation, precision manufacturing, quantum computing, and sustainable finance. 1,500+ attendees. Tickets CHF 300+.
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Swiss JavaScript Group
Non-profit developer community based in Zurich that runs ZurichJS meetups and the annual ZurichJS Conf, Switzerland's premier JavaScript and TypeScript conference. It gathers hundreds of developers, engineering leads and dev-tool startups for talks, workshops and networking around modern web technologies.
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Swiss Medtech
Swiss Medtech is the leading Swiss industry association for medical technology, representing member companies engaged in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of medical devices and in vitro diagnostics. The association advocates for regulatory and political conditions favorable to the medtech sector in Switzerland and internationally. It serves as an official industry partner of the Swiss Medtech Expo and is represented on the event's trade fair committee by its Director, Adrian Hunn.
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Swiss Medtech Day 2026
The leading conference of the Swiss medical technology industry, organized by Swiss Medtech at Kursaal Bern. Attracts 800+ industry representatives annually with the 2026 edition focusing on integration under the multi-year theme 'Mastering Complexity'.
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Swiss Medtech Day 2027
Swiss Medtech Day's next edition is a confirmed save-the-date for Wednesday 9 June 2027 at Kursaal Bern. Organized by Swiss Medtech, the leading conference of the Swiss medical technology industry typically attracts 800+ industry representatives annually.
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Swiss Medtech Expo 2026 (September 2026)
Switzerland's leading biennial medtech trade fair for development, manufacturing and supply, organized by Messe Luzern. Around two hundred exhibitors plus a conference and innovation program draw engineers, manufacturers, suppliers and medtech startups. It is relevant to medtech founders for sourcing, partnerships and showcasing solutions in one of Switzerland's strongest industrial clusters.
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Swiss Nordic Bio 2026
A high-level partnering and investor conference connecting life-science innovators, investors, and industry across Switzerland, Austria, and the Nordics. For a biotech or healthtech founder it provides structured 1-to-1 partnering meetings with investors and pharma in a focused single-day format.
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Swiss Robotics Day 2026
The national robotics gathering, organised by ETH Zurich's RobotX at the StageOne Convention Center, showcasing Swiss robotics research, spin-offs, and live demos. For a robotics or hardware founder it concentrates the Swiss robotics talent pool, lab spin-offs, and industrial partners into one day.
